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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Conway’s Law: A system’s design structure mirrors the communication structure of the people who built it.

So if Bethesda has dysfunctional communication practices such as excessive meetings, slow feedback loops, or pipelines that don’t allow their workers to work independently, their software is also going to suffer from the artifacts of that dysfunction.